Fun Beginner Seascape Acrylic Painting Super easy

1. Welcome: In today's class, you will learn how to make this wonderful seascape would over ten years of experience as a professional artist and more than five years of teaching, both online and in-person classes. I've developed a very easygoing and fun method of teaching. Hi, my name is George, and today I will be guiding you and encouraging you to make a wonderful painting. You might think this is a very complicated seascape. However, with some step-by-step encouragement, you will understand everything you need to know to create it. You'll understand how to keep things simple and focus on having as much fun as possible. For this, you will need a canvas board in order to rehearse the challenging parts of this painting, you will be learning about key concepts like color, perspective, and contrast. Not only that, but you will be doing all of this with one single brush in order to better understand brush handling. If that sounds exciting to you, welcome to the class. 2. Materials: This seascape, you'll need a few materials. You will need a canvas that is 40 by 30 centimeters. You will need one brush. This is a round brush that can have a tip that he can use to make thin lines for the waves and the cliffs will also need some paper towels to clean the brush, as well as a mixing plate to mix the colors. Some water just to make some transparent colors. This is Amsterdam acrylic paint. This is carmine, red, this is brilliant blue. This is primary yellow, some titanium white. And on top of that, you will need a canvas board to create some beautiful exercises. 3. Rehearsal : Before we start, we should talk about one of the most overlooked things in painting, and that is the rehearsal. You should always have a canvas board nearby. And now you'll understand how to use it to improve all of your paintings. This is your practice board. You start painting on it loosely, freely, just on areas of the painting that you feel that they are difficult. Musicians do this all the time. They repeat the same song over and over again. That's why when it comes time to perform, they've done it a thousand times. Of course you don't have to do something a thousand times, but if you do it at least twice, you will ensure that it will look great. And don't worry, you don't have to have 100 of these. After you finish. You put some water on it and you wipe it down with a paper towel. And now let's see how we can use it. As you can see, the beautiful canvas board has been used a few times and wipe down. Don't worry if it's still colored after you use it. You don't have to make it white. Again, this is just a ground, a beautiful neutral color. For the next sketches. You don't really need to make this exercise completely. You just need to see it. And if you have a canvas board, you can practice it as well, taking some blue and some red. This will be a very fast exercise just to explain how things will lay down. The top side will be the sky. It is made with the blue and red. And on the downside, it will have some darker mountains. Those will be even darker. And then the reflection of the sky will be on the left-hand side, as you can see here. And over here, just loosely putting some paint down, cleaning up the brush very loosely. As you can see, this is the chest, so we can understand how the composition and everything works. These are very, very simple concepts, just putting down some colors. And this way you will learn how to let go a little bit and let the brush do its thing and create beautiful and interesting colors and textures. Adding some yellow to the plate, mixing it in with a tiny bit of red. And right to the left of the middle of the canvas. Adding this wonderful rich, now, taking some more red to make the darker part of the stone. And on the lower side. And then going down into the blue to create the reflection. Now let's make the highlight once again onto the left side, clean up the brush. You can start to see how with just a few simple strokes, you can create a small composition to see if the colors go well. You can understand where to apply them and how to apply them. Taking some white and mixing it in with this beautiful orange just to give a better highlight onto the left side of the cliff and at the bottom, grabbing that white with the finger, the reflection needs to be a little bit longer than the cliff itself. Okay? Going at taking some reds and mixing it in with the blue to create this wonderful dark blue shadow. And in the reflection as well, concentrating a little bit more on the bottom side. And then let's create this shadow for the cliff on the right side. The cliff that will appear soon, taking some more blue. And let's start to create some beautiful lines. Start to see them as some waves. These will converge a little bit. They will be curved towards the cliff on the right side. Let's take some more blue and mix it in. Right behind the cliff. It's not actually behind, is just on the right and the left, but it does give this impression of being behind it. Now, taking some white and mixing it in with the blue, you will create some sea foam. And just with the corner and the tip of the brush, Let's create some clashing waves onto the cliff and just below the dark lines, creating some more waves. A simple reflection with waves and see such an easy process to make. And you don't have to worry about messing it up because it's just an exercise. Very, very easy. Let's add a few more lines as waves. Let's clean up the brush. This is a very simple composition. And now let's integrate the cliff with the sky by adding some blue into the cliff color and adding get chest on the right side where the shadow and the light part meat. And at the top and adding it at the bottom of the reflection and on the sea just a tiny bit so it gets integrated with the cliffs. And there you go with this wonderful exercise. Remember to always scrape down the paint by adding water with the brush and then with a paper towel, just taking it off. If you take anything from this course, this should be it. It will change the way you paint forever. If you want to practice a little bit before you start the painting, you will find a reference image on the resources page. And now let's start the big painting. 4. Blue sky and water: Now that you understand some key concepts about the seascape, we can go and painted. Adding some brilliant blue to the mixing plate onto the left side and some red. This is carmine red, just slower adding some more blue, since this is a big boy Canvas. Taking the brush and mix it into the blue, adding some red, just a tiny bit of red. Just to create this beautiful dark blue. Taking some water and mixing it into the paint, going just above the middle line of the canvas and adding two lines that go a little bit to the right side. After that, you can just fill in with this color, the top side, loosely and as fast as you can, trying to keep a right to left and circular motion, adding some more reds and some more blue to create more color and a little bit of a different tone in the sky. And covering the corner on the left side just over here. Don't forget about the sides. Tried to scrub them down until they feel nicely covered on the top and on the left going and taking some more color and adding it at the bottom just to increase a little bit of the area of the sky and some water just so this area's stays a bit more wet. It's important for when you will put the mountains, adding some yellow and taking some red, mixing it in with the blue and the red, adding some yellow just to create this interesting brown. And now with this dark purple brown color, you can go from the left and add some beautiful small mountains. And as you go to the rights, they follow the slope of the sky and become bigger. Tried to make them just as simple as you can and avoid repeating the same geometrical shapes. Don't make them all triangles tried to make them a little bit more varied. Let's clean up the brush on the lower part of the canvas, onto the left side, picking up more blue and adding it over that dark patch you just created. And over taking it in making this beautiful sky reflection onto the sea. Going even lower with some water. Perfect. Taking some more blue and adding it at the bottom of the mountains and putting some more beautiful blue onto the water just below, creating this wonderful surreal look to the painting. Now let's go a little bit over the mountains and blend that color into the newly found blue. And also focus a little bit more on the edges, making them nicer and more crisp. Let's add some more blue at the top. Just so we can touch up the edges from the top side. We can blur a little bit the edges of the mountains, just so it seems like there may be rain or a storm coming and covering those mountains already since this guy is so dark. Okay, Let's focus on moving from right to left with the brush, just so we smooth that sky a little bit more and a little bit of light. Onto the left side. Just over here. Let's clean up the brush and take that color and mix it in, again, creating some more textures. And let's brush that into the sky just so it seems a little bit more chaotic, blending a little bit of the mountains. And there you go. With this first step, you can see how easy it is to cover a lot of canvas and make a beautiful sky in just a few minutes. You've done that by first looking at the exercise and then knowing exactly what you want to do, as well as just letting the brush do its thing and create beautiful patterns in the sky. You've also touched on Lost and Found edges on the mountains. This gives the effect of a storm in the background and it's a very useful thing to know and painting. And now let's go to the next step. 5. Sandy shore and cliffs: Now with the help of some brown and orange, you will finish the whole composition. That's right, the whole composition, we'll be finished by the second step. The composition is very different than the finished painting. This doesn't mean the painting is finished, just that all the big elements are there in case of this painting, the sky, the distant mountains, the glyphs, ceci, and the sand. This is also the step where the painting looks a little bit funky, but don't worry, you will have a great painting by the end. Let's go into it. At this stage, the painting is still wet. Let's grab with this beautiful brush, some red and some yellow, making this dark brown color right next to the red and mixing it very well, taking some water and mixing it in just so it flows a little bit better. Going into the blue on the right side, starting from the right side. This time with a little bit of a slope. You will try to make those mountains a little bit different than the ones in the background, not only in color, but in shape as well. Mixing it in with that blue just so they seem a little bit darker. Going and jumping a little bit onto the left side and creating some more. This wonderful cliff. This is just the top side of the cliff, okay. Now, at the bottom, you can start to clean up the brush just because it picked up a little bit of blue from the top. And let's twist this wonderful plate and make a beautiful orange with some red and some yellow and some water as well. Going into the brown. And over the patch we just created. Now, just below this patch, we can create a more intense slope. So with chest curves a little bit to the left. So it now seems like a wonderful cliff. Okay, going and smoothing a little bit of the color and onto the left. Let's create another cliff. This time. Just having a little bit of a shadow going to the left. This will be important at a later stage. Now, let's cover all the canvas onto the left and bottom side with this beautiful color. Let's clean up the brush once again. So we have a more beautiful orange that we can make the sand width perfect, grabbing some more red and water. This can be a very watery mix. Okay, be careful not to go too much into the sea so it doesn't blend with those blue colors too much because they will become much, much darker and greener, covering everything above and below the cliffs and the left side. This will be just a wonderful color to paint on with details, but those are all the big shapes. Okay, going and touching that beautiful line of the C, you can start to look at it as a curve that goes towards the clefs. You can practice a little bit of the waves by making a beautiful line with the tip of the brush just going into the blue. Now covering the bottom of the canvas completely and mixing up a little bit of this brown and taking, and putting it here and there on the cliffs on the right side, creating a more interesting shape for the cliff on the left. Such an easy and simple step, as mentioned previously, this looks a little bit funky, but don't worry, if you studied art history, you would even find paintings that look kind of like this, just a little bit messy and not a lot of details, believe it or not, this kinda look used to be popular in the past. And now let's bring those beautiful details and colors into the next step. 6. Red rocks and shadows: In this step you will cover just a bit of the canvas that is still showing up, as well as adding some more color variety in the shape of two boulders and some gorgeous reflections. Then let's go into this step. The clean brush, you can take some yellow and mix it over with some reds. Making this wonderful orange light color and ride over the mountains, mix it in. As you can see, that painting is still wet. Let's go and cover some of those blues as well. Since this color is a little bit thicker, just a little bit of colors so we can have something underneath to create some wonderful textures. And on the big rock in the middle of the sea, just add two lines right in the center. Going and making some more interesting textures. Just going from side-to-side cleaning this brush on the shore, adding some white to the mixing plate. And now taking some yellow and some red, just so we can create a wonderful orange. Once again. This time, a little bit more reddish with this beautiful orange chest on the middle of the mountains create a wonderful round shape with a little bit of a texture onto the left side. And on the right side, just a tiny cliff that goes to the left, kinda like a shoe. And if you have some color, you can go over the blues and cover them just a tiny bit so that they don't show up lower below the cliffs going and making a darker reds. And another beautiful cliff onto the left-hand side, as well as on to the right of the cliffs, adding this color, taking some blue and some red and mix it and get over this orange to create a darker tone. And right under the newly found boulders, you can create a shadow and going up a little bit onto the right side because the light comes from the left side, creating this wonderful C-shape. It's more like a J shape and going with a line and going towards the right. As well as making this wonderful reflection just below the beautiful folder. You can also make this shadow just below the second bolder. Onto the left. Maybe a little bit smaller. And the C-shape indicating the shadow onto the right side, as you can see, the orange being a little bit wet. It picks up into this shadow and some shadow chest near the end of the cliff on the left side, just over here. Going a little bit onto a slope. Now going above the stone in the middle of the sea and below it. And on the right, let's just clean up a little bit of the brush onto the canvas and make this wonderful cliff a little bit more smudged. You can also put your finger and smudge it away. This will be the shadow of the boulder onto the cliff. Okay. Going with a clean brush and adding some blue just over here in between the first, just over here, in-between the big cliff and the middle see glyph just covering closely, trying not to pick that brown up going onto the left side as well and trying to blend it in with the background. Grabbing some more blue and now going into the sea and where there is a little bit of white, we can cover it nicely with some side-to-side motions and a little bit of circular motions if you want as well. Perfect. And there you go with this step as well. In this one, you've learned what it means to tighten up the painting with just a few colors and covering the white spots of the canvas. Painting looks so much more detail. That is one of the secrets of painting, color variety. And now let's go into the next one. 7. Highlights on cliff and shore: Now comes one of the most interesting parts of painting, and that is the highlights. You will be creating some beautiful light on the boulders as well as on the cliffs. This will bring all the painting to lie, just a few touches and the painting will look gorgeous. And let's not forget about the reflection into the water. Before we start, you should make sure that the water is dry. Let's add some yellow to the mixing plates, put a clean brush, taking some reds. And on a clean part of the plate, mixing a beautiful orange and making it lighter with some white and more yellow with some yellow adding even more yellow and some red. Just to create this wonderful orange, yellow color, very, very light. This will be the highlight on the first Cliff. On the left side. Focus just on the light part of this cliff, just on the top left side. And now moving towards the right clefts in the middle of the canvas with some beautiful cuts. Just going on a slope towards the top. Don't touch the top. Just make a little bit of a ridge just below the top of the cliff. That's where we will put some green later on. Now, going on to the boulders with a tiny bit more of an orange color, just making this beautiful highlights. Now on the big boulder, just at the top and a little bit lower, leaving a bit of texture to the middle. Don't forget about the reflections. Just going down, adding some more red and some more yellow to saturate that color, go a little bit into the darker part of the reflection, just so you cover it, so it doesn't seem like it has too much shadow. Now, let's go with a little bit of this color. Just onto the cliff behind the boulders, creating some more color variety, as well as onto the single cliff in the sea chest where the shadow and the light part meet, creating a transitionary color. And at the bottom of the cliff on the left side. Now, with this color, you can go ahead and add it to the sand, smoothing out a little bit of that water texture. That's very light, thin layer of paint adding some more white and covering this, making it smooth with side-to-side motions. From left to right. You can even add more white into the orange, creating an even lighter tone as you go down from the middle of the canvas. And going on the left side, taking more color. And in the middle, just next to the sea, taking some water just so you can spread that color around, keeping a little bit of the color underneath. Don't forget about the edge at the bottom, smoothing out that texture. It doesn't have to be perfectly smooth. As you know, sand is very coarse and adding some yellow to the color just so you can have some more intense highlights going on the cliff, on the left edge of the cliff, as well as right next to the small bolder, just kinda making a cut out of it. As you can see, the colors are still wet so they mix together, creating a wonderful texture. Let's not forget to make some reflections on to the seaside. Of course, going onto the right side, right next to the small bolder reflection. Let's grab some red and some yellow creating those orangey tones. Just because the color was a little bit too yellow. And now let's go in between the small bolder and the big boulder creating the cliff. Don't forget to leave a little bit of a patch at the top. So it has a wonderful edge where the grass will be added onto the left side, going on the small cliff, adding some highlights onto the top left side and some reflections with some orange as well. Drag them quite low and adding some more light onto the left side and some lighter tones on the left side since the light comes from there. And that's all for this step. You've now touched upon adding some beautiful highlights. You can start to see that the highlights are very thick and there is a big difference between them and the shadows. This creates a lot of contrast and gives the effect of light on the painting. You've also practiced a little bit of brush direction on the cliffs. You went towards the right end a little bit out, but under reflections you went with vertical brushstrokes, thus creating a beautiful vibration into the artwork. Let's go into the next one. 8. Green hills and blue shadows: In the last step, you've made some beautiful highlights. Now it's time to make some wonderful shadows. These shadow will create even more detail and contrast into the painting. You will also understand how to make a little bit of those gorgeous waves. And on the top of the cliff where you left a little bit of a pet, you will add some grass. Now, let's go into the step, cleaning up the brush with some paper towels, grabbing some yellow, some blue. Just so we can create this wonderful rich green. And at the top of the cliff, you will start to add this wonderful color. Rotating a little bit of the brush, Let's add some reds. So we cut that green just a tiny bit so it becomes less vibrant. And on the right side, going into the middle of the cliff and just cleaning up the brush over the wonderful brown going and taking that green and spreading it around at the top of the clef, adding some more blue and some more yellow, just creating some new patches with this wonderful turquoise. And since it has more blue, it integrates better with the sky. Taking some yellow and mixing it in with some red and some white, creating this wonderful sandy color. A little bit more yellow, very, very light yellow color. And adding some more highlight just on the left of the big cliff. Just going with beautiful lines. As you can see, they are very thin, as well as adding this highlights to the left side of the cliff in the middle of the sea and to its center, right in the center, and in the reflection at the bottom. And right next to the big boulder creating a beautiful outline. And to the right of it, accentuating that shadow part, outline. Don't forget, there is a shadow here that goes up the hill. So we can actually outline in a little bit, but not completely. So it doesn't seem like a outline. And going to the right onto the edge of the canvas. Now into the sand with the same color. Let's create some reflections. Just over here and right next to the boulder, just a tiny bit. And onto the sand you can clean up the brush so you can add more color variety to the shore. Grabbing some more and spreading it a little bit more at the bottom of the sea. Let's spend this plate a little bit and create a beautiful shadow with some blue and some red. Mixing it very well, grabbing a tiny bit of water and mixing it into the color. And going at the bottom of the center cliff and a little bit down into the reflection and higher up on the right side of the cliff, trying to make a separation in-between that wonderful C and the cliff. And going higher up on the big cliff with some thin lines as well as maybe a little bit under the grass. Now we can do the same right next to the small bolder and underneath it, bringing those blues back into the mix. And on the big boulder as well. Just not covering all the brown. Now for some beautiful waves, just over the reflections creating some lines that go towards the right. You have to remember that they converge a little bit and curve as you go closer to the shore. And they can become a little bit thicker as you go down. So the higher up you are on the sea, that thinner, they get going towards the right and curving them a little bit more. Maybe we can make another one just over here. You can start to see the brush has picked up a little bit of that wonderful orange. Now at the bottom where the c connects with the shore, you can add another beautiful wave just connecting it and going towards the cliffs on the right side with a broken line, cleaning up the brush and trying to add some water over this wonderful wave in the middle, making it a lot longer. Another one near the cliffs, picking up more color to make some distant lines that are thinner. Cleaning up the brush. And there you go with this step as well. In this exciting step, you've learned something new about shadows. If the light is warm than the shadows will be cool in this painting, this translates to yellow, orange highlights and blue shadows. You also touched upon a little bit of perspective width, the lines on the sea, the higher they are, the thinner they become because they are in the distance. And as they move closer to the shore, they become a little bit thicker. And now let's go into the next step. 9. Waves contouring: Now, for some even more exciting stuff, you will be making some beautiful highlights onto the waves. In this way, you will create some wonderful contrast onto the sea. You won't believe how easy it is to create those waves with just a little bit of blue and some white. You will finish them in no time. Let's go into the step. Let's twist this wonderful plate and add some white with the brush properly cleaned. We can take some blue, mix it in with a lot of white, but keep in mind this color is not at all completely white. Now let's go onto the left side. And now onto the left side, just create some thin lines just above the bottom of the cliff, thinner and thinner as they go higher below the mountains in the distance. Now for some clashing waves right next to the cliff, you can add some beautiful lines going right up to the cliffs. And of course, as they get lower, you can add some more color to it, some more white. Let's also add some smaller ones to the left and then add some more white into this color and make some wonderful clashing waves next to the beautiful cliff. This is very thick paint. You can start to see those flashing waves. Let's add some lines onto the left cell. They don't seem just out of place, creating a thinner line, just going down. You should barely touch the canvas and leave a trace of those wonderful textures for the waves. Now below the darker parts you've created on the last step, you can add some of this lighter tone, just going to the right and curve it a little bit more. And going even lighter, mixing it in that color, trying to get it as thin as possible. Don't worry if it gets tiny bit thicker. You can put the brush on the plate and rub it a few times until it creates this beautiful, nice, straight edge. This is a very useful trick that you can use to create thinner lines with round brush going even lower and making some highlights just below the waves. And now going on the seashore, just below this wonderful shadow and in the middle of the sea, wherever you see a darker color, you can go and add a thinner line of white below it. Going closer towards the cliffs, barely touching the canvas, and going towards the right side, trying to curve them towards the cliff. Cleaning up the brush with some water and some paper towels in order to create some beautiful shadow color. To fix those thicker lines in the sea, it's very important not to cover all the sea with waves and darker parts. The reflection still need to be quite visible. Now, going close to the shore and adding some shadow, taking some water so you can easily spread it and make it a tiny bit more transparent. You can also make the white lines thinner with this watery mix. Don't go overboard just where it needs a little bit of a shadow and a little bit of a fix onto the white and making another wave just over here, right by the shore. And there you go with this step as well. What a fun step this was. You've put some highlights onto the waves. You've also learned how to make thinner lines with a round brush. You've also went back with the shadow colors of the sea and fix those waves. Just so they seem a little bit more interesting. Now let's go into the next step. 10. Blending the layers: In this one, you'll make the highlights even more crispy by adding some more color variety as well as some thickness. Just the few more details to make the artwork a little bit more finished. Let's go into this step with a clean brush, some yellow and some white. You can mix this wonderful light yellow color. Let's take some blue just so we can integrate those sky colors into the highlights. Just a tiny bit of blue. And going on to the middle cliff at the top, just touching the edge of the cliff with this wonderful color. You can start to see it's much lighter. Just a touch of this color brings new life into the highlights. Now, let's go onto the right side cliff and add just a few touches at the bottom and near the grass and right by the boulders. You can start to see it's a tiny bit more cool. This color has a little bit of blue into it. You can also touch up a little bit of the reflections in case you've made the shadow to take. Okay, let's go and make some waves. Just to integrate those colors. Even more, you can start to make some waves just onto the right side of the waves near the shore. And they become this wonderful color. Let's imagine that these colors reflect onto the highlights of the waves as well. So we can continue the highlights of the waves just onto the right side, revealing the colors underneath the reflection you've just created with the bottom of the brush, just scraping that color off and making some lines. Now let's get some yellow and add a little bit of red into it, creating this wonderful orange color with some white, some more yellow to cover the bottom of the canvas because there is some whites still showing through them. Forget about the sides. Taking some more white, just so you can add some highlight to that, orange and going and spreading that beautiful color can also go on to the first wave, just because the sand will show through the wave, going a little bit more even into the second wave and spreading that color around the bottom, cleaning the brush, basically taking some white and adding it to the bottom of the canvas and some water just to create a smooth, beautiful sand. Taking some water and some blue from the plate, just the dark blue to create some more shadows onto the sea. Of course, this brush has a little bit of orange still in it. So if you press harder, you can add some more of this gray that is created by the fact that there is blue on this C. Let's clean up the brush, take some white, and start making some highlights. Just continuing those beautiful waves and adding some more thick faint on the highlights already created, as well as creating some new ones right here in the middle and above it. That's creating a new set of highlights and improving the last ones. You can also go on to the right side where you've created those waves that are a bit more yellow just to bring back that white and integrate them even more, going to the middle and then to the left side. Creating some new lines. Don't go overboard. Just a few lines will create the effect. Let's add a thinner one just over here and right next to the big cliff. And there you go with this step. In this one you've played around with some cool beautiful highlights onto the cliffs. And just like that, you've added some sky colors into the cliffs since the blue of the sky is reflected everywhere, but that same cool yellow highlights, you've created some new waves. This harmonizes the cliff colors with the sea even better. And let's not forget about those beautiful waves where you've entered with the sand color just to create more transparency. Now let's go into the final step. 11. Highlights on rocks. Thank You!: Can you believe this is the last step? Just a few touch ups and you will have a gorgeous seascape. In this one, you will be looking closer to see where you can add a little bit of vibrancy to the painting. For instance, some saturated yellows into the cliffs. Let's go into the step, cleaning up the brush with some paper towels, taking some water so we can clean it even better. Grabbing some red, mixing it in right where the white is, and some yellow. Grabbing this beautiful orange, just so you can put some highlights onto the boulders. You can start to see you're not touching the edge, just leaving a little bit of a line over there. Let's not forget to add some reflections into the sea with this color as well. Go and continue those waves just so it integrates a little bit better onto the reflections. Grabbing some water and blurring that down with some blue and some water to create those waves. Perfect. Cleaning up the brush once again, taking some white just so you can create some highlights just over here into the waves where we have disturb them. Cleaning up the brush, grabbing some yellow and mixing it over this orange, this light orange, you can start to see this as a very saturated color and adding it to the cliff just here and there in batches, even under the beautiful patch of grass, creating a more interesting edge. Going right behind the boulder and into the shore and maybe over the waves a little bit, as well as on to the middle cliff, just over here, on its left and on its bottom, connecting the waves with the cliff. Let's not forget to add this color to the reflection just a tiny bit so we don't disturb the waves. And there you go with this step as well. Congratulations, you've done it. You've finished another beautiful class and another beautiful painting. Don't forget to post your artwork as a project. Once again, thank you for being part of this community and if you are gracious enough, you can leave a review. See you in the next one.